Y&R has announced that Managing Director Steve Kane will leave the agency at the end of the year (he’s joining True – scroll down to next story), replaced by Y&R’s current Head of Planning Jono Key, who’s been promoted to Managing Director, effective in the New Year.
Arrivals & Departures: True snaps up Steve Kane
Grey Lynn indie agency True has appointed Steve Kane as Managing Director to further strengthen the agency’s leadership team.
NZTE ruffles feathers with Aussie agency signing
New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE) has put the cat among the pigeons by stepping outside of its home turf, and handing the tender for its $400,000 website redesign to Australian agency DT.
Farewell to a good bloke
M+AD ed David Gapes writes about his lifelong friend Barrie Everard, who died in Auckland last week from a terrible condition that interfered with his balance, ultimately taking his life. Everard was a media pioneer in NZ; a distributor, a feature film producer, entrepreneur, a former chairman of the NZ Film Commission, owner of the Barclay cinema chain, and founder […]
Shine rises from the ashes
Fair Go’s Best Ad of the Year went to an edited version of Shine’s Hyundai Getting Lost on TVNZ 1 on Monday night, bouncing back with a vengeance after being named Worst Ad of the Year just 12 months ago.
Special Group at B&T – Updated
In yesterday’s coverage of Colenso and Special’s achievements in Australia’s B&T Awards, M+AD missed Special’s Australasian Branding & Design Agency of the Year win for an entry that spanned both the Auckland and Sydney offices.
Writing to Santa goes digital
The interactive Santa pages created by Ponsonby digital agency Method for the New Zealand Post website – where children can make and send a digital postcard to Santa – is proving a real hit with kids (and adults).
DAN launches innovation incubator for creatives
The Dentsu Aegis Network has launched an idea incubator programme to nurture innovative and creative thinking among the employees of its 20 agency brands.
Oz marketing win buys beach wheelchairs for the disabled
Tauranga’s Bayfair Shopping Centre has won an award – in Sydney – for its nation-leading accessibility programme at the Shopping Centre Council of Australia Marketing Awards. Bayfair picked up A$2500 for its win, which they have donated to the Omanu Surf Life Saving Club.
Saatchi celebrates kids’ moneybox arrival
Saatchi & Saatchi has created a new campaign to announce the official arrival of ASB Clever Kash that launched this week and will run across TV, digital and social.
